. . . yesterday morning Mrs. Clinton rolled out a new response to those demanding contrition: She said she was willing to lose support from voters rather than make an apology she did not believe in.

ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œIf the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote or has said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from.ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚?

This post isn’t an endorsement of her candidancy. But she’s moved up a notch or two in my estimation. Having taken this stance, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to reverse her stance. Even for a Clinton.

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7 Responses to “Hillary Refuses to Apologize for Her War Vote”

Agreed. She shouldn’t apologize for her war vote if she thought it was the right thing to do. But if she didn’t think it was right, but she did it anyway because she was afraid…well, that’s a different story. We’ll see if we hear this from her on the campaign trail. Stay tuned because I have a feeling we could be hearing that from her in the coming year.

All the senators/presidential candidates have placed themselves in a really untenable situation.

If you admit the vote was wrong, then you are also admitting that you followed the herd during a public opinion stampede. In other words, you showed poor judgment. Definitely not something a presidential candidate is supposed to do.

On the other hand if you don’t renounce your vote, you are by default saying you still support an unpopular war.

I don’t think Hillary’s lack of remorse has anything to do with conviction, morality or ideas. It is simply a cold political calculation on making the best of a bad situation. If anything, my opinion of her just went down. I want a president who will admit mistakes. (I know I’m never going to get one, but I can still wish for one.)

Guys,
The only thing that resembles cow droppings around here are the way Democrats are being buffalo’d into having to defend themselves about going to war in Iraq. This was entirely a Republican debacle, being that they controlled all three branches of gov. at the time, and they were’nt open to any suggestions. Now, if you want to accuse them of being

Sorry, wrong button… If you want to accuse the Dems. of being spineless after things started going bad, or for not raising enough of a fuss about the way monies were being appropriated and then spent, then I can agree. I was very fustrated by the lack of any oversight taken by any of our elected officials.
But you wanna talk B.S. – how about how funding for the war was to come from Iraqi oil ? Or the many other misconceptions we were told about this war from the party in power. If you wanna talk about trust, how can you be questioning the actions of the party that had nothing to do with our present situation?
So, let’s see. A Republican administration’s idea to invade Iraq, a Republican House and Senate to rubber stamp it, and you’re still talking about how the Clintons can’t be trusted. Yea, that’s great.

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